Trilogy Real Estate Group announced the acquisition of Azalea Apartments, a 289-unit multifamily community that is currently under construction in the East Tampa neighborhood of Brandon, for $85.8 million. Azalea will join Trilogy's growing portfolio of investments located in qualified opportunity zones.
Investments in qualified opportunity zones benefit from the provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that allow the taxes on capital gains realized from the sale of almost any asset, such as stocks, bonds, businesses, real estate and K-1 partnerships, to be deferred by investing the gains in designated opportunity zones. The most significant benefit of the program is the permanent elimination of taxes on capital gains realized from the sale or exchange of an investment in a qualified opportunity zone fund that has been held for a minimum of 10 years.
"We are the beneficiaries of three years of development work that ZOM Living completed," said